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  1. NatJ

    Aggressive silkie help please!

    Can you wear boots, and keep your hands out of the way? Maybe also wear leather gloves when opening the door, if she gets you at that time. That would at least keep you safe, and would not hurt her. I usually wear boots to keep my feet clean while tending chickens, which has the side effect of...
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    Questions about fermented feed

    That is not the only mechanism for reducing feed costs when using fermented feed. For most backyard situations, the savings on feed costs are because wet feed sticks together and doesn't spill as much. The chickens can eat the same total amount of feed as before, but the feed cost goes down...
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    My Crocus-Fowl Landrace project moving forward

    Mostly because the pea comb gene does reduce wattle size when it is homozygous. Probably partly because of selection in that breed. Just like some single-comb breeds have larger or smaller wattles than others, some pea-comb breeds also have larger or smaller wattles than other pea comb breeds...
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    What Bantam breed is this?

    I'll be the third vote for White Laced Red Cornish Bantam. I'm basing that on body shape, feather color & pattern, leg color, and my best guess of the comb type (it's hard to be sure about combs when they are so small.)
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    My Crocus-Fowl Landrace project moving forward

    Nope, no beard. I've seen some pea combs that are the lumpy bumpy thing you mention. My favorite pea combs are three tidy little rows of bumps, with the middle one a little higher than the rest, so they look nicely organized and not random. I don't have any good pictures of them right now. My...
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    Broody Hen Not Standing? Has Chicks

    A hen with newly-hatched chicks will usually stay on the nest for a bit before she comes out with the chicks. Some hens wait a few hours, some hens wait a few days. If the chicks had actually hatched underneath her, they would need that time to dry off and fluff up and get ready to walk around...
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    Genetics of my BYM

    In that case, the chick could grow up to be silver with some white (basically, a white chicken). Or the chick could have a light shade of gold with some white (similar colors to a Buff Laced Polish, but not the actual "laced" pattern.) It should be fun to see what colors of chicks you get!
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    What breeds compliment a single Silkie well?

    I can't quite tell what you are asking. If you are asking, would Polish Bantams be a good choice as chicks? The answer is probably yes. If you are asking, if you get some kind of chicks, should you also get adult Polish Bantams to keep the Silkie company while the chicks are young? The answer...
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    Genetics of my BYM

    If that rooster is the father, then the mother could be your Chocolate Orpington or your Black Star (chick gets the genes to be all-black from the mother, then the gene Dominant White from the father will turn all that black into white.) Or if the father has the Silver gene, the mother could be...
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    What breeds compliment a single Silkie well?

    Standard Polish might be an option as well. They are still pretty small, even when they are not actually bantams. And in the USA where I am, it is much easier to find Polish standards than bantams. Of course Polish are handicapped by their crests, which make it hard for them to see. This could...
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    My Crocus-Fowl Landrace project moving forward

    I am fond of pea combs. Some of the small/smooth pea or walnut combs can look fairly similar to a dubbed bird, at least at first glance. I have not been close to a dubbed bird in person to check fine details. For example, here are three photos of the head one bird: She was a Red Shouldered...
  12. NatJ

    Sourdough Hens

    I look forward to seeing pictures!
  13. NatJ

    My Crocus-Fowl Landrace project moving forward

    Separated since August, collected eggs in December, it's pretty unlikely that any hen would store sperm that long. :clap That probably is the answer!
  14. NatJ

    My Crocus-Fowl Landrace project moving forward

    If the apparently-barred chick is male, I think that is the most likely explanation (testable by breeding any maybe-barred hens to a black rooster with no barring, and see if you get any sons with obvious barring.) If the apparently-barred chick is female, and turns out to actually have...
  15. NatJ

    Delaware Genders

    I think it's two cockerels (picture posted later) and three pullets (first picture, after I click to make it larger).
  16. NatJ

    Wheaten genetics

    You're welcome!
  17. NatJ

    Wheaten genetics

    If what you really want is chicks that are pure for the Wheaten gene (E^Wh), then you should be able to get some in the second generation. For that, it does not really matter whether Duckwing is dominant over Wheaten or vice versa. Cross the Wheaten and the Duckwing, and you've got chicks that...
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    Looking for studies that illustrate safety of giving honey to baby birds

    Obviously botulism is a danger to people or chickens of all ages, but honey is not considered a particular risk factor for most people after they are past infancy. Chickens grow up much faster than humans, so their digestive system might mature more quickly too. So there might be an actual...
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    Sourdough Hens

    I do not know if it is possible to have a chicken with both of these traits at the same time. I would expect that the rose comb pushes the crest back, so it can lay backward but not forward (example: some Silkies.) But I do not know if that must happen, or if you could breed for a...
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    My Crocus-Fowl Landrace project moving forward

    Sometimes feathers just do get their pigment in weird ways. For example, some kinds of dietary deficiencies or excesses can cause weird coloring. But this one still LOOKS like barring. I'll look forward to seeing the results! I've read of a few cases when hens stored sperm for longer than a...
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